by sioux75 » Mon May 21, 2007 7:15 am
Only one Mandan girl was selected to the original roster, no Mandan girl opted out of the competition. The only one that I would guess opted out was Steffan from Dickinson, (she should have been voted on to the team).
I don't think it is right that Mandan only had one Lion's All-star on the roster, given their record of 48-2 the last two years, two WDA regular season championships, two WDA Tournament Championships and two State Championships. During this time Kielpinski, Kelsch and Kraft were all full time starters.
This year Mandan averaged 8 points more per game than the second place team, (Century), and more importantly allowed 8 fewer points per game than the second place team, (also Century). Both Kraft and Kelsch were integral parts of the Braves in-your-face defense that has contributed to Mandan's success.
Kelsch was all-conference WDA this year, and the only Senior all-conference selection not on the Lions All-Star Team, (if I'm right about Steffan).
When Mandan only gets one selection with all of its sucess, even against Century, one has to question the three selections, (half of the WDA pics), for Century. One must question even more the two selections from Minot, (1/3 of the WDA pics). Minot was a .500 team that didn't even make it to state. What's even more interesting is that one of Minot's two selections wasn't even all-conference WDA.